A US judge ordered Wednesday that deep funding cuts by the Trump administration to Harvard University be overturned, after they were imposed over claims of anti-Semitism and bias at the Ivy League institution.

Harvard sued in April to restore more than $2 billion in frozen funds. The administration insisted its move was legally justified over Harvard's alleged failure to protect Jewish and Israeli students, particularly amid campus protests against Israel's war in Gaza.

The cuts to Harvard's funding stream forced it to implement a hiring freeze while pausing ambitious research programs, particularly in the public health and medical spheres -- pauses experts warned risked American lives.

"The Court vacates and sets aside the Freeze Orders and Termination Letters as violative of the First

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